Understanding your license

Your Posit Connect license determines which features and capabilities are available to you and other users on your server. This page provides an overview of license tiers and entitlements to help you understand what your license includes.

License tiers

Posit Connect licenses are organized into three product tiers: Basic, Enhanced, and Advanced. Each tier includes progressively more features and capabilities.

Basic

Basic licenses permit you to:

  • Publish and share interactive applications and dashboards with authenticated Connect users (Shiny, Dash, Streamlit, Bokeh, Panel, and Gradio)
  • Publish and share static and rendered content with authenticated or unauthenticated users:
    • Quarto documents, R Markdown reports, Jupyter notebooks, and other rendered content
    • Static sites and HTML documents
    • Pins for data sharing
  • Schedule and distribute rendered content by email
  • Control access to content
  • Manage users and groups
  • Audit and monitor server activity

Enhanced

The Enhanced tier adds support for API content types, data governance integrations, and capabilities to support security patterns commonly used in regulated environments. Enhanced licenses include everything in Basic, plus:

  • Host APIs (Plumber, FastAPI, Flask, Vetiver, TensorFlow model serving) for authenticated user requests
  • OAuth integrations for connecting to external services
  • Current user execution for applications
  • Custom branding
  • Option to share and distribute content with anonymous users on the public internet by adding the Public Access entitlement

Enhanced features in the documentation are marked with an Enhanced badge.

Advanced

The Advanced tier provides the full Posit Connect feature set for enterprise deployments. Advanced licenses include everything in Enhanced, plus:

  • Off-host execution on Kubernetes
  • Unlimited server activations
  • Option to add flexible site-wide anonymous user access with the Unrestricted entitlement

Advanced features in the documentation are marked with an Advanced badge.

Entitlements

In addition to the tier-based features, some licenses can be bundled with special entitlements that enable additional capabilities.

Public Access

The Public Access entitlement allows you to share interactive content (such as applications and APIs) with anyone on the internet without requiring them to sign in. The content must be reachable from the public internet.

Without this entitlement, interactive content can only be accessed by:

  • All users - login required: Anyone with a Posit Connect account on your server
  • Specific users or groups: Only designated users or groups

With Public Access, you can additionally set content to:

  • Anyone - no login required: Content is publicly accessible without authentication

Public Access is available with Enhanced or Advanced licenses that include this entitlement. See Public Access in the Admin Guide for more information.

Unrestricted

The Unrestricted entitlement provides flexible access options for organizations that need to share content with anonymous users on internal or private networks.

With an Unrestricted entitlement, you can:

  • Share interactive content with anonymous users in your organization without requiring public internet access
  • Deploy content on internal networks while still allowing unauthenticated access
  • Bypass the public URL verification required by standard Public Access licenses

The Unrestricted entitlement is available with Advanced licenses.

Checking your license

You can view your current license tier and entitlements in the Connect dashboard:

  1. Click System in the top menu bar
  2. Click the Info tab
  3. Look for License Tier and Entitlement in the System Info section

If you have questions about your license or want to upgrade, contact your Posit Customer Success representative or email .

Early access features

Some new features are released as Early Access before becoming generally available. Early Access features may require specific license tiers or entitlements. See Early Access for information about currently available Early Access features.

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